Quantum heat engines based on electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Hofer, Patrick P. LU
and Sothmann, Björn
(2015)
In Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
91(19).
- Abstract
We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric properties of heat engines based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers. The energy dependence of the transmission amplitudes in such setups arises from a difference in the interferometer arm lengths. Any thermoelectric response is thus of purely quantum-mechanical origin. In addition to an experimentally established three-terminal setup, we also consider a two-terminal geometry as well as a four-terminal setup consisting of two interferometers. We find that Mach-Zehnder interferometers can be used as powerful and efficient heat engines which perform well under realistic conditions.
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- author
- Hofer, Patrick P.
LU
and Sothmann, Björn
- publishing date
- 2015-05-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- in
- Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
- volume
- 91
- issue
- 19
- article number
- 195406
- publisher
- American Physical Society
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84929583916
- ISSN
- 1098-0121
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.195406
- language
- English
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- no
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title = {{Quantum heat engines based on electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers}},
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